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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Okay, maybe it is just me, but for some reason I do not see why folk are all
up in arms and extremely supportive of Susan Rice. Sometimes I think it is the 98
percent of black folk syndrome that believes Obama or Rice can never be
wrong, or make mistakes, intentionally misinform of even worse – never lie.

Rice, I suspect is thought by many to be Obama's
top pick for secretary of state, if you asked me based on what I
understand, her statements and her policy, she is dangerously incompetent to be
SOS. Now she is smart, but the only way I can support her selection is if all
we want is an incompetent war monger in the office. True, she is a Stanford University graduate
and Rhodes Scholar who worked for the reknown McKinsey &
Company before she joined the National Security Council under President
Bill Clinton, and from there she became President Clinton’s assistant secretary
of state for African affairs, but job promotion has nothing to do with utility
of being a competent SOS.

The merit is there, no question, but when one looks at intent, and attributes
siding with liberty, freedom and truth, Rice gets no points. Whether or not she
intentionally and willfully misled the American people on the Benghazi attacks,
or ran misdirection for the Obama Administration in denying a terror attack
prior to his re-election is not the point. The bottom line is that she is not
the best choice for the job if you look at the world from an African American
who takes prided in having the first African American President albeit I agree
with less than 10 percent of his policy – foreign, domestic and economic, Rice
is a major point of consternation.

This was nothing, she even went farther by obstructing the efforts of other
nations to stop the slaughter. Instead, although in April 1994 the Canadian
UN commandeer in Rwanda, General Romeo Dallaire, declared that he required
only 5000 troops to stop the genocide, she advocated that the UN force under
Dallaire reduced by ninety percent to 270 troops.

Samantha
Power of the Atlantic said it best as the author of the Pulitzer-Prize
winning A
Problem of Hell who referred to Ambassador Susan Rice and her
colleagues in the Clinton Administration as Bystanders to Genocide said it best
when she quoted Rice in her 2002 book "If we use the word 'genocide' and
are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November
congressional election?" Meaning - Rice's saw genocide as being less
important than partisan politics interests. This is not partisan on Power’s
behalf, seeing that presently Power currently is a Special Assistant to
President Barack Obama.

Rice also has a troubled past as it pertains to the Iraq war and
invasion by President Bush which she vehemently supported. In one instance
she stated in 2003
to NPR: “I think he has proved that Iraq has these weapons and is hiding
them, and I don’t think many informed people doubted that.” In another, she
stated: “It’s clear that Iraq poses a major threat. It’s clear that its weapons
of mass destruction need to be dealt with forcefully, and that’s the path we’re
on. I think the question becomes whether we can keep the diplomatic balls in
the air and not drop any, even as we move forward, as we must, on the military
side.” I can also throw in Libya where she clearly was the main person to move
the President to take action against Gaddafi
and Syria, where she promotes armed intervention against Syria. In general,
Rice has a track record of doing all I hated that George Bush did or attempted
to do -- advocate
nation-building in failed states. Add to this her support for more troops
in Afghanistan, she appears to be no different that Rumsfeld or Wolfowitz.

Add to the aforementioned incompetency
and a policy that seems to support Israel no matter what and African
neocolonialism, she has even more baggage. If she is selected by the President
to be SOS, she will have a major conflict of interest. Currently, Rice
holds millions of dollars in investments in Canadian oil companies and banks
that have keen interest and investments in the $7 billion Keystone XL Pipeline.
If she was to become the next Secretary of State, she would have the final say
in determining if the pipeline gets approved and built or not. According to the
environmental advocacy group Natural Resources Defense Council and financial
disclosure reports, Rice has MAJOR INVESTMENTS in more than a dozen
Canadian oil companies and banks that would benefit from enhancement of the
Canadian tar sands industry and the building of the KPL. Open record reports
indicate that approximately a third of Rice's personal net worth (stimated in
2009 to be between
$23.5 million and $43.5 million) is in Canadian oil production and other
off shoot markets. Not to mention that Rice has between $300,000 and $600,000
invested in TransCanada, the company trying to get permission from the State
Department to construct portions of the KPL from Oklahoma to Canada.

When we look at her investments in banks, the conflict of interest issue
becomes more lucid. She has “investments totaling at least $5 million and up to
$11.25 million in Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank
of Commerce, Royal Bank of Canada, and Toronto Dominion.” A report by the Dutch
consulting firm Profundo Economic Research notes that some of these
banks are largely responsible for underwriting the expansion of Canada’s
tar sands industry.

And I will not mention that Rice and her husband own at least $1.25 million
worth of stock in four of Canada’s eight leading oil producers, as ranked by
Forbes magazine including Enbridge, (company responsible for spilling more than
a million gallons of toxic bitumen into Michigan’s
Kalamazoo River in 2010 -- the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history).

Susan Rice is smart, that is not the point, and she just should not be the
SOS. Now she may have another stage of genocide on her hands as she did
with the invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo by U.S. allies Rwanda and
Uganda which left six million Congolese dead begining in 1996. Now with the
capture of Goma, an eastern Congolese city of one million, by “rebels” under
Rwandan and Ugandan control complete with the support of western nations the
United States and the United Kingdom (who
are arming,training and equipping the Rwandan and Ugandan militaries).
Afterall our U.S. ambassador to the UN Susan Rice is the main one responsible
for keeping information on Rwandan and Ugandan role in the ongoing genocide out
of international policy. It was Rice who blocked the UN Security Council
from demanding that Rwanda
endsupport to M23 rebels.

The way I see it anyone who supports Susan Rice
either doesn't read, think for themself or is mentally retarded. The saddest
thing about it for me is seeing black folk support her without question. Maybe
idiots shouldn’t vote